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Syzygy is produced by Chris Stewart and co-hosted by Dr Emily Brunsden from the Department of Physics at the University of York.

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Things we talk about in this episode:

YorNight 2018: https://www.york.ac.uk/news-and-events/events/yornight/2018/

The Kepler mission: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/kepler

Kepler runs out of fuel: https://www.space.com/41363-kepler-exoplanet-hunting-telescope-dead.html

TESS: https://tess.gsfc.nasa.gov

NASA’s heart-tugging animation: https://nasaviz.gsfc.nasa.gov/20284

NASA’s Exoplanet Travel Bureau: https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/alien-worlds/exoplanet-travel-bureau/

Kepler 78b: https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/resources/226/kepler-78b/

Kepler 186f: https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/resources/198/kepler-186f-the-first-earth-size-planet-in-the-habitable-zone-artists-concept/

Kepler 64b: https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/resources/222/kepler-64b-four-star-planet/

Musical note: Chris would like to acknowledge that he now realises that The Exoplanet Song’s chorus melody is really quite similar to the verse melody from Jason Mraz’s “I’m Yours”. And by “quite similar” he means “almost identical to”. He’d like to point out that he did have a sneaking suspicion there was a reason the song had come to him so quickly … So, you know, thanks Jason.)

SYZYGY LIVE! Join us for a very special live podcast recording at the University of York’s YorNight 2018: https://www.york.ac.uk/news-and-events/events/yornight/2018/

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Syzygy is produced by Chris Stewart and co-hosted by Dr Emily Brunsden from the Department of Physics at the University of York.

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Things we talk about in this episode:

Chris’s video about the cosmic distance ladder: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFoHlWK571k

The AU: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomical_unit

A very simple Parallax explanation: https://youtu.be/iwlMmJs1f5o

Parsec definition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parsec

Cepheid Variables: https://www.space.com/15396-variable-stars.html

NGC 4258: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2014/m106/

Type 1a Supernovae: https://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/science/objects/supernovae2.html

Edwin Hubble: https://www.spacetelescope.org/about/history/the_man_behind_the_name/

Redshift and blueshift: https://www.space.com/25732-redshift-blueshift.html

Hubble’s Constant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EP5cNoNuXo

The expanding universe as explained by Brian Cox: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PR6wN8ym7SI

SYZYGY LIVE! Join us for a very special live podcast recording at the University of York’s YorNight 2018: https://www.york.ac.uk/news-and-events/events/yornight/2018/

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Syzygy is produced by Chris Stewart and co-hosted by Dr Emily Brunsden from the Department of Physics at the University of York.

Visit us at syzygy.fm or find us on Twitter: @syzygypod

Things we talk about in this episode:

SYZYGY LIVE! Podcast recording at YorNight 2018 https://www.york.ac.uk/news-and-events/events/yornight/2018/

NASA’s Mercury page: https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/mercury/overview/

NASA’s Messenger Mission: https://www.nasa.gov/content/nasa-s-messenger-spacecraft-10-years-in-space

BepiColombo’s going to Mercury: http://sci.esa.int/bepicolombo/59288-bepicolombo-s-journey-to-mercury/

JAXA, Japan’s space agency: http://global.jaxa.jp

Giuseppe “Bepi” Colombo: https://www.esa.int/About_Us/Welcome_to_ESA/ESA_history/Giuseppe_Bepi_Colombo_Grandfather_of_the_fly-by

ESA’s video showing BepiColombo’s journey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Yp-q1wqgig

Animation of Mercury’s 3:2 orbital resonance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUde7LFOlPs

Tidal Locking: https://www.universetoday.com/123391/what-is-tidal-locking/

Ice on Mercury: https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/water-ice-on-mercury/

Colour maps of Mercury: https://www.universetoday.com/102901/messengers-unique-view-a-colorful-spinning-planet-mercury/

The solar wind: https://solarscience.msfc.nasa.gov/SolarWind.shtml

The Great Observatories: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Observatories_program

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Syzygy is produced by Chris Stewart and co-hosted by Dr Emily Brunsden from the Department of Physics at the University of York.

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Things we talk about in this episode:

SYZYGY LIVE! Podcast recording at YorNight 2018 https://www.york.ac.uk/news-and-events/events/yornight/2018/

Fermi’s new constellations for the high-energy sky: https://www.york.ac.uk/news-and-events/events/yornight/2018/

Imaging the SMBH at the centre of the Milky Way: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/04/magazine/how-do-you-take-a-picture-of-a-black-hole-with-a-telescope-as-big-as-the-earth.html

Event Horizon Telescope: https://eventhorizontelescope.org

Emily’s Astrocampus at the Uni of York : https://eventhorizontelescope.org

Sagittarius A*: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagittarius_A*

Star S2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S2_(star)

A truck-full of data: https://what-if.xkcd.com/31/

The Black Hole (movie): https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1002497_black_hole

Interstellar (movie): https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/interstellar_2014

The physics of the Interstellar black hole: https://www.wired.com/2014/10/astrophysics-interstellar-black-hole/

Gravitational lensing: https://www.spacetelescope.org/science/gravitational_lensing/

Pale Blue Dot: https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/resources/536/pale-blue-dot/

Carl Sagan on the Pale Blue Dot image: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wupToqz1e2g

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Syzygy is produced by Chris Stewart and co-hosted by Dr Emily Brunsden from the Department of Physics at the University of York.

Visit us at syzygy.fm or find us on Twitter: @syzygypod

Things we talk about in this episode:

Kepler mission: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/kepler/

Kepler’s been put to sleep: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/ames/kepler-put-into-sleep-mode-as-telescope-s-pointing-performance-degrades

Hubble’s gyro problems: https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/10/hubble-space-telescope-taken-offline-after-gyroscope-failure/

Exomoon paper: http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/4/10/eaav1784

Moons of the Solar System: https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/moons/in-depth/

Saturn’s moonlets: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/jan/31/saturns-rings-contain-millions-moonlets-new-nasa-images-reveal-cassini

Jupiter’s rings: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rings_of_Jupiter

Multiple star systems: https://www.universetoday.com/132154/multiple-star-systems/

Pluto & Charon: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/pluto-and-charon-new-horizons-dynamic-duo

Animations of the Pluto-Charon binary: http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/Multimedia/Animations/Pluto-System.php

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Syzygy is produced by Chris Stewart and co-hosted by Dr Emily Brunsden from the Department of Physics at the University of York.

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Things we talk about in this episode:

The Goblin paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1810.00013.pdf

A more readable story about The Goblin: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/new-discovery-goblin-stirs-signs-elusive-planet-9-180970442/

The Astronomical Unit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomical_unit

The Kuiper Belt: https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/solar-system/kuiper-belt

The Voyager missions: https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov

The Heliopause: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heliosphere

The Oort Cloud: https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/solar-system/oort-cloud

Our nearest star (other than the Sun, which is a star also): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxima_Centauri

Trans-Neptunian Objects: https://www.universeguide.com/fact/kuiperbelt

The Subaru Telescope: https://subarutelescope.org

The Skymapper Telescope: https://rsaa.anu.edu.au/observatories/telescopes/skymapper-telescope

The Zooniverse — get some Citizen Science going: https://www.zooniverse.org/

Zooniverse — Backyard Worlds: https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/marckuchner/backyard-worlds-planet-9

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Syzygy is produced by Chris Stewart and co-hosted by Dr Emily Brunsden from the Department of Physics at the University of York.

Visit us at syzygy.fm or find us on Twitter: @syzygypod

Things we talk about in this episode:

Quantum weirdness: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kb1VT0J3DE

Quantum entanglement: https://www.quantamagazine.org/entanglement-made-simple-20160428/

The MIT/Vienna experiment: https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-08/miot-lfa082018.php

Syzygy is produced by Chris Stewart and co-hosted by Dr Emily Brunsden from the Department of Physics at the University of York.

Find us on Twitter: @syzygypod twitter.com/SyzygyPod

Or just visit us at home: syzygy.fm

Emily at the University of York: www.york.ac.uk/physics/people/brunsden/

Chris online: kipstewart.com

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Some of the things we talk about in this episode:

TESS update: https://tess.gsfc.nasa.gov/

Paper about the stars at the galactic core: https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2018/07/aa33718-18/aa33718-18.html

Article about the research: https://www.universetoday.com/139701/einstein-was-right-again-successful-test-of-general-relativity-near-a-supermassive-black-hole/

Video about the research: https://www.eso.org/public/videos/eso1825a/

Video of the orbiting stars: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TF8THY5spmo

Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity: https://www.newscientist.com/round-up/instant-expert-general-relativity/

The Very Large Telescope: http://www.eso.org/sci/facilities/paranal/telescopes/vlti.html

A visit to the VLT: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BXIA5r9r29I

Tests of General Relativity: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tests_of_general_relativity

Syzygy is produced by Chris Stewart and co-hosted by Dr Emily Brunsden from the Department of Physics at the University of York.

Find us on Twitter: @syzygypod twitter.com/SyzygyPod

Or just visit us at home: syzygy.fm

Emily at the University of York: www.york.ac.uk/physics/people/brunsden/

Chris online: kipstewart.com

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Some of the things we talk about in this episode:

• Mars is *still* having a bit of a dust storm: https://mars.nasa.gov/weather/storm-watch-2018/

• Name the ExoMars rover! (Please, no Marsy McMarsfaces, OK?) https://events.airbus.com/exomarsnamecomp

• The Lunar Eclipse, 27 July 2018, livestream replay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqBStEIVF8o

• So, water on Mars, eh? https://www.sciencenews.org/article/mars-may-have-lake-liquid-water-search-life

• The scientific paper: http://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2018/07/24/science.aar7268

• The Mars Express mission: http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Mars_Express

• Lake Vostok: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Vostok

• All the times we’ve found water on Mars: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_on_Mars

Syzygy is produced by Chris Stewart and co-hosted by Dr Emily Brunsden from the Department of Physics at the University of York.

Find us on Twitter: @syzygypod twitter.com/SyzygyPod

Or just visit us at home: syzygy.fm

Emily at the University of York: www.york.ac.uk/physics/people/brunsden/

Chris online: kipstewart.com

To view the podcast chapter list and artwork in this episode, you could do worse than use the Overcast app on iOS, or Pocket Casts on Android. (Other podcast players are available, though they may not handle mp3 chapters nicely.)

Some of the things we talk about in this episode:

• Mars is having a bit of a dust storm at the moment: https://mars.nasa.gov/weather/storm-watch-2018/

• Name the ExoMars rover! (Please, no Marsy McMarsfaces, OK?) https://events.airbus.com/exomarsnamecomp

• When and where to see the Lunar Eclipse, 27 July 2018: https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/lunar/2018-july-27

• Solar eclipse: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse

• Solar corona: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corona

• Star Charts: https://astronomynow.com/uk-sky-chart/

• Free planetarium app for your computer/phone/tablet/device: http://stellarium.org

• Historical eclipses: https://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEhistory/SEhistory.html

• Historical comets: http://sci.esa.int/rosetta/54198-harbingers-of-doom-windy-exhalations-or-icy-wanderers/

• Historical supernovae: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_supernova_observation

• Betteridge’s Law of Headlines: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headlines

• Future eclipses: https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/list.html